IS it too much of IPL??

Question

Lets face it. the matches are interesting and we dont want to miss any. but, day in and day out....non'stop action... is it too hot to handle...... ????

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

no not at all u must read dis and u will also change ur view

Indian Premier League

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Indian Premier League



Administrator(s) BCCI

Cricket format Twenty20

Tournament format(s) Double round-robin and Knockout

Total participants 8 (2008)

Official website Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League (also known as the "DLF (Delhi Leasing and Finance) Indian Premier League"), is a Twenty20 cricket competition created by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The first season of the Indian Premier League commenced on 18 April 2008, and it will end on 1 June 2008 when the final is played at the DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai.

Contents [hide]

1 Fixtures

2 Television rights

3 Official website

4 Franchises

5 Player signings

6 Controversies

6.1 Conflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board

6.2 Conflicts with Cricket Australia

6.3 Conflicts with the Pakistan Cricket Board

6.4 Conflicts with other Boards

6.5 Media restrictions

6.6 Cheerleaders

7 See also

8 External links

9 References



[edit] Fixtures

Main article: 2008 Indian Premier League



A Chennai vs Kolkata match in progress at the M.A. Chidambaram Cricket StadiumTeams play each other twice in a round robin system, with the top four ranking sides progressing to the semi-finals.

The eight teams taking part are Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings, Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers, Rajasthan Royals, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Delhi Daredevils, and Kings XI Punjab

The inaugural 2008 tournament started on 18 April 2008 and lasts for 45 days, with 59 matches scheduled to take place.

[edit] Television rights

On 15 January 2008 it was announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Entertainment Television network and Singapore-based World Sport Group secured the global broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League.[1] The record deal has a duration of ten years at a cost of US$1.026 billion. As part of the deal, the consortium will pay the BCCI US$918 million for the television broadcast rights and US$108 million for the promotion of the tournament.[2]

20% of these proceeds would go to IPL, 8% as prize money and 72% would be distributed to the franchisees. The money would be distributed in these proportions until 2012 after which the share of IPL would go up.[3]

Sony-WSG then re-sold parts of the broadcasting rights geographically to other companies. Below is a summary of the broadcasting rights around the world.

Winning Bidder Regional Broadcast Rights Terms of Deal

Sony/World Sport Group

Global Rights, India 10 years at USD 1.026 Billion[1]

Network Ten Free-to-air television in Australia 5 years at AUD 10-15 Million.[4]

Setanta Sports

United Kingdom and Ireland on a subscription basis 5 years, terms not disclosed.[5]

Arab Digital Distribution Middle East broadcast rights on ADD's ART Prime Sport channel. Will broadcast to United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Libya. 10 Years, terms not released.[6]

Willow TV Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in North America. 5 years, terms not released.[7]

SuperSport

South Africa broadcast rights Terms not released

GEO Super

Pakistan broadcast rights Terms not released

Asian Television Network

Canadian broadcast rights. Aired on ATN's CBN & ATN Cricket Plus channels on a subscription basis. Aired on XM Radio's ATN-Asian Radio as well. 5 years, terms not released.[8]

[edit] Official website

The IPL negotiated a contract with the Canadian company Live Current Media Inc. to run and operate its portals and the minimum guarantee has been negotiated at USD 50 million over the next 10 years.[9] The official website of the tournament is iplt20.com.

[edit] Franchises

The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 2008.[10] While the total base price for auction was US$400 million, the auction fetched US$723.59 million.[11] The official list of franchise owners announced and the winning bids were as follows.

Franchise Owner(s) Price (USD)

Mumbai Indians

Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Industries Limited $111.9 million

Royal Challengers Bangalore Vijay Mallya and UB group $111.6 million

Hyderabad Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chronicle $107 million

Chennai Super Kings India Cements and N Srinivasan $91 million

Delhi Daredevils GMR Holdings $84 million

Kings XI Punjab

Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur) $76 million

Kolkata Knight Riders

Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla Mehta and Jai Mehta (Red Chillies Entertainment) $75.09 million

Rajasthan Royals Emerging Media: (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram) $67 million

[edit] Player signings

Main articles: Royal Challengers Bangalore, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Daredevils, Deccan Chargers, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indians, and Rajasthan Royals

The players' auctions were held on February 20. The IPL placed icon status on a select few marquee Indian players. These players were Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, and Virender Sehwag. Laxman initially named an icon player, later voluntarily opted out of his icon status to give his team (Deccan Chargers) more money to bid for players.[12]

[edit] Controversies

The BCCI had found itself in the middle of many conflicts with various cricket boards around the world as a result of the IPL. The main point of contention was that signed players should always be available to their country for international tours, even if it overlaps with the IPL season. To address this, the BCCI officially requested that the ICC institute a time period in the International Tours Program solely for the IPL season. This request was not granted at a subsequent meeting held by the ICC. [13]

[edit] Conflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board

Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with the County Championship season as well as New Zealand's tour of England, the ECB and county cricket clubs raised their concerns to the BCCI over players. The ECB made it abundantly clear that they would not sign No Objection Certificates for players—a prerequisite for playing in the IPL. Chairmen of the county clubs also made it clear that players contracted to them were required to fulfil their commitment to their county. As a result of this, Dimitri Mascarenhas remains the only English player to have signed with the IPL.[14]

Another result of the ECB’s on-going fear of players fleeing to the IPL was a proposed radical response of creating their own Twenty20 tournament that would be similar in structure to the IPL. The league—titled the English Premier League—would feature 21 teams in three groups of seven and would occur towards the end of the summer season. [15] The ECB has already enlisted the aid of Texas Billionaire Allen Stanford to launch the proposed league.[16] Stanford was the brains behind the successful Stanford 20/20, a tournament that has run twice in the West Indies.

[edit] Conflicts with Cricket Australia

The BCCI also experienced run-ins with Cricket Australia (CA) over player availability for Australia’s tour of the West Indies and CA’s desire for global protection of their sponsors. CA had feared that sponsors of the IPL (and its teams) that directly competed with their sponsors would jeopardize already existing arrangements. This issue was eventually resolved [17] and it was also agreed upon that Australian players would be fully available for the West Indies tour.

[edit] Conflicts with the Pakistan Cricket Board

Many players from the Pakistan Cricket Team who were not offered renewed central contracts (or decided to reject new contracts) decided to join the rival Indian Cricket League. Two such players—Naved-ul-Hasan and Mushtaq Ahmed also held contracts with English Counties. The PCB decided to issue No Objection Certificates for these players to play with their county teams on the basis that since they were no longer contracted to the PCB, there was no point in not granting them their NOCs. The latter did not sit well with the BCCI, as it went against the hard line stance they had taken on players who joined the ICL.

[edit] Conflicts with other Boards

Smaller boards like the WICB and NZCB have raised concerns over the impact the IPL will have on their player development and already fragile financial situation. Since players from smaller cricketing nations are not compensated as much, they have more motivation to join the IPL.

[edit] Media restrictions

Initially the IPL enforced strict guidelines to media covering Premier League matches, consistent with their desire to use the same model sports leagues in North America use in regards to media coverage. Notable guidelines imposed included the restriction to use images taken during the event unless purchased from Cricket.com, owned by Live Current Media Inc (who won the rights to such images) and the prohibition of live coverage from the cricket grounds. Media agencies also had to agree to upload all images taken at IPL matches to the official website. This was deemed unacceptable by print media around the world. Upon the threat of boycott, the IPL eased up on several of the restrictions. On April 15th, 2008 a revised set of guidelines was issued by the IPL offering major concessions to the print media and agencies.[18].

Even with the amended restrictions, specialist cricket websites such as cricinfo and cricket365 continued to be banned from providing live coverage from the grounds and from purchasing match images from press agencies. As a result, on April 18

Answer 3

It's not too much but the season is not correct, the best time for IPL is oct-nov. At last BCCI has got the chance to get new talents for coming  world cup.

Answer 4

IPL T20 is the best thing happened to cricket now the game is come alive.

As you rightly said the TRP of all T.V shows is taken a beating in India and every one in the family is watching cricket with great interest before T20 cricket was boring and I have not seen any thing like IPL.

By 8pm you feel that the whole country is watching IPL.

IPL is spoken in every home even BCCI would not have expected this response and no doubt it is heading to become the most popular sport.

Answer 5

IPL is great entertainment to watch.......but i agree wit u a match everyday is gettin a little hectic.......the worst thing is that i have exams comin up so i cant watch.

Answer 6

IPL matches are very interesting and entertaining.

In the evening everybody is free from daily routine and nobody wants to miss IPL.

IPL is a source of entertainment for people and money for BCCI and cricketers.

Answer 7

You're right,it bores the public and the players themselves.

Answer 8

the question you have asked is absolutely meaningful. yes it is absolutely true. the scenario in todays indian cricket is much demolished due to ipl. things that are taking place in ipl is  something beyond our imagination.is there any need of cheerleaders . is there any need of wasting huge money on playeres ..

Answer 9

s but its intersting and happy to handle this too much

Answer 10

I too wish it was not every day. Life seems to revolve around IPL these days.